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Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd. (French: Ford du Canada Limitée) changed into founded on August 17, 1904, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling Ford automobiles in Canada and the British Empire. It became in the beginning referred to as the Walkerville Wagon Works, and changed into positioned in Walkerville, Ontario (now a part of Windsor, Ontario). The founder, Gordon McGregor, convinced a collection of buyers to put money into Henry Ford's new automobile which became being produced across the river in Detroit. The firm manufactures and sells cars in Canada, and additionally in the United States and other nations around the sector. 'History' The Ford Motor Company of Canada become no longer a subsidiary or a department plant of Ford Motor Company – as a substitute, it turned into a separate company and had its personal awesome institution of shareholders. At its formation, Ford Motor Company was now not a shareholder of Ford Canada, however its twelve founding shareholders directly held 51% of Ford Canada's stocks, and Henry Ford himself owned 13% of the brand new agency. The Company had gained all Ford patent rights and promoting privileges to all components of the British Empire, except Great Britain and Ireland.It subsequently established and controlled the subsequent subsidiaries: Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa Ford India Private Limited Ford Motor Company of Australia Ford Motor Company of New Zealand The Model C, the first vehicle to be produced in Canada, rolled out of the manufacturing facility in past due September 1904. The Company may want to produce two cars at a time and in its first complete year of production, the Company became able to produce 117 motors. The Company's first export income were to Calcutta, India. Ford is still an important manufacturing enterprise in Windsor. With the increase in car sales after World War II, together with the purchase of majority manipulate by means of Ford Motor Company, Ford of Canada determined to move its head workplace and construct a brand new meeting plant in Oakville, Ontario. The new Oakville assembly plant was opened in 1953. In order to fulfill ever increasing call for, the Company opened another assembly plant in Talbotville, Ontario in 1967. Historically Ford became one of the most effective organizations in Canada, and within the Seventies, Ford changed into the "largest" corporation in Canada. Ford of Canada celebrated its Centennial in 2004, shortly after the Parent Company Ford in the United States did in 2003. That 12 months also saw the obligatory acquisition by Ford Motor Company of the last of the shares held by way of minority shareholders, which were at the start proposed in 1995. However, the last litigation inside the depend, managing an oppression remedy claim through the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System with respect to its shareholdings, was only resolved by the Ontario Court of Appeal in January 2006. In 2010, Ford changed into embroiled in an issue surrounding a plan to construct a massive fuel-fired energy plant to be operated by way of TransCanada on a disused thirteen.5-acre portion of its Oakville meeting plant. Local residents and politicians pleaded with Ford no longer to preserve with the plan, as citizens believed it would negatively impact their fitness and safety. The province cancelled the generating station in October 2010 and both Ford and TransCanada withdrew their deliberate appeals to the Ontario Municipal Board the subsequent January. The plant was one in every of worried in the Ontario electricity plant scandal, which contributed to the resignation of Premier Dalton McGuinty and Energy Minister Chris Bentley.